"Voice function? OO will open the voice function tomorrow? How is this possible!" In Tenda's office, everyone who heard the news finally announced by Leng Zhimeng looked like they had seen a ghost and were shocked.

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No, the voice function is not a small function like a drift bottle. This is a major version update that will change the overall architecture of the entire software. This almost requires a redesign of the entire software. This is a function that QQ does not have.

OO actually already has it??

So after the show ended, Xiao Ma did not summon the person in charge of the sales and marketing department immediately, but instead called Zhang Zhidong from the technical department.

"How far has our voice chat technology progressed now?" Xiao Ma asked with a serious face.

"Actually, it's ready!" Zhang Zhidong's tone was calm, but he could still hear some pride. "If you need it, boss, I can come up with the BEAT version within three days."

"Old Zhang, I really saw you right!" After hearing this result, Xiao Ma showed a satisfied smile on his face. It seemed that OO's deliberately thrown bomb could not blow him up at all.

In fact, Tenda had already started researching voice technology in early 2001. I have to praise Xiao Ma for his broad vision and foresight in technology and products.

Because earlier in 2000, at all internal version development meetings, Xiao Ma, like the technology department, proposed a three-step technical development route for QQ and revised three new major versions of the QQ framework.

The first major version is the voice chat major version, which requires QQ to realize the voice chat function and improve QQ from the text era to the voice era.

The second major version is the video era, which further improves voice to video.

The third major version is the mobile era, which requires QQ to no longer be satisfied with virtual software on the Internet, but to have its own physical device. In Xiao Ma's original vision, QQ is like a Nintendo handheld console, and users

You can carry a QQ device with you at any time, and you can chat on QQ anytime and anywhere, without being restricted by your computer.

And the best thing is that this thing can not only use QQ, but also play games and so on, so that you can counterattack and enter the game market.

Xiao Ma also set a timetable for these three eras, requiring us to enter the voice era before 2003, the video era before 2008, and the mobile era before 2015.

But when Brother Ma proposed these three major version goals at the meeting, many people found it incredible and thought it was too fast. Not to mention technological progress, the progress in the Internet alone was a fantasy.

Nowadays, the fastest broadband network speed is only about 50KB/second, and the average network speed is only about 10KB. Chatting on QQ via text is already quite difficult, and it also needs to support voice and video. Doesn’t this require all Internet users?

If the network speed reaches more than 100KB/second, the network speed must be increased by 10 times.

How can this be?

Twenty years later, in 2021, according to China's technical level, the average network speed is estimated to be 100KB/second, which is already a huge miracle. This is still a fixed network speed, and the mobile era will inevitably require wireless

The network speed is even more frighteningly slow.

Therefore, everyone at Tenda felt that their boss was crazy and was talking nonsense. Only Zhang Zhidong seriously implemented Ma Ma's needs. From the beginning of 2001, he began to prepare for the first era planned by Ma Ma, which was the voice era.

The new generation of QQ.

Brother Xiao Ma originally thought that Zhang Zhidong would have to wait until the second half of 2002 to produce qualified products at the earliest. He just asked casually and did not expect Zhang Zhidong to give him a definite answer. In the end, Zhang Zhidong told Brother Xiao Ma that at most

It only takes three days to come up with this new version.

"Why so fast?" Brother Ma couldn't help but ask.

"Because our entire technical department has been preparing for your voice era, boss!" Zhang Zhidong flattered you. "Also, voice technology is much simpler than we imagined. We are very

The research and development of the technology has actually been completed a long time ago, and the technology is already ready. It just needs to be integrated with the current QQ to complete all aspects of bug fixes and some integration work, which will take about three days."

"Zhidong, thank you for your hard work. The greatest blessing in my life is to have a good friend like you!" Brother Ma was so moved that he put his arms around Zhang Zhidong's shoulders and howled.

"But boss, there is actually another question." Zhang Zhidong hesitated and then said.

"What's the problem? Will it affect the launch of our voice function?" Xiao Ma immediately asked worriedly.

"No, it won't affect the launch, it will just affect the user experience, because voice requires a lot of bandwidth to support, I'm worried..."

"I know this problem!" Brother Xiao Ma interrupted Zhang Zhidong, "I have already considered this. This is why I have been pressuring your technical department not to engage in pictures, documents, or large group chats.

Our internet speed and servers really cannot keep up with demand.”

"Originally, according to my plan, we would complete the further upgrade of the server in 2003 and then start updating these new technologies, but OO appeared, which forced us to deal with their threats immediately!"

"So now it's not a question of whether the bandwidth is enough, but whether we have QQ. If not, it will be like the previous drift bottle, and OO will take away a large number of our users!"

"You can go ahead and do it boldly. I'll take care of the bandwidth, okay?" Brother Ma firmly held Zhang Zhidong's hand, "Zhidong, I leave everything to you!"

"Don't worry, boss, I promise to complete the mission!!" Zhang Zhidong was about to give Brother Ma a military salute.

Although Zhang Zhidong worked very hard indeed, no matter how hard he worked, he could not change the fact that the new version took three days and OO Voice was fully launched the next day.

After more than a week of craze, the popularity of JDFT broadcast yesterday was extremely high. The ratings were almost the highest in the year, reaching an astonishing around 20%. That is, one-fifth of the people in the country are watching JDFT.

Then they collectively learned the news that OO will launch the voice function tomorrow.

Of course, most ordinary bosses just want to watch the excitement. They don’t have computers at home and have no interest in going to Internet cafes. Even if OO sends them red envelopes, they have no interest in downloading.

But those who have computers and have free time, but who didn't know OO before, are different. As soon as they read the news, they immediately started to download OO software and planned to experience the OO chat function.

As a direct result, OO's download speed was much slower, almost twice as slow as usual, and they were so angry that they wanted to throw the keyboard.

However, there are only a small number of such people, because when more people download OO, they are surprised to find that at some point, there is already a ready-made OO installed on their computer desktop. They don't even know it.

I don't know when this was installed, but I have no idea at all.
Chapter completed!